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TIL that 28 years before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein the French author Nogaret wrote Le Miroir, a story about an automaton brought to life by a doctor named Wak-wik-vauk-on-son-frankénsteïn

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TIL that 28 years before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein the French author Nogaret wrote Le Miroir, a story about an automaton brought to life by a doctor named Wak-wik-vauk-on-son-frankénsteïn

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TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat

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